The Man of the Crowd

short story by Poe

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In Edgar Allan Poe: Themes, technique, and legacy
…of fatality (“The Assignation,” “The Man of the Crowd”). Even when he does not hurl his characters into the clutch of mysterious forces or onto the untrodden paths of the beyond, he uses the anguish of imminent death as the means of causing the nerves to quiver (“The Pit…
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